Wage-setting in France: a Complex Interaction between Law, Case Law and Collective Bargaining
Wage-setting in France obeys to the principle of contractual freedom and refers to the effective working time performed by the employee (par. 1). That freedom is however limited twofold: from the one hand, by the Legal Minimum Wage (Salaire Minimum Légal hereinafter also SMIC); from the other, by th...
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| description | Wage-setting in France obeys to the principle of contractual freedom and refers to the effective working time performed by the employee (par. 1). That freedom is however limited twofold: from the one hand, by the Legal Minimum Wage (Salaire Minimum Légal hereinafter also SMIC); from the other, by the principle “equal pay for equal work” (par. 2). Moreover, it is limited by the right to collective bargaining, which includes, since some years, a peculiar mechanism – the Collective Performance Agreements – that allows, among the others, a reduction of wages, excluding, de facto, any possibility of opposition by the employees (par. 3). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d67c7f24c8db4db68ef3f448a855eb0c2022-12-21T19:22:13ZengUniversity of BolognaItalian Labour Law e-Journal1561-80482019-12-01122455110.6092/issn.1561-8048/101518615Wage-setting in France: a Complex Interaction between Law, Case Law and Collective BargainingPascal Lokiec0University of Paris 1 SorbonneWage-setting in France obeys to the principle of contractual freedom and refers to the effective working time performed by the employee (par. 1). That freedom is however limited twofold: from the one hand, by the Legal Minimum Wage (Salaire Minimum Légal hereinafter also SMIC); from the other, by the principle “equal pay for equal work” (par. 2). Moreover, it is limited by the right to collective bargaining, which includes, since some years, a peculiar mechanism – the Collective Performance Agreements – that allows, among the others, a reduction of wages, excluding, de facto, any possibility of opposition by the employees (par. 3).https://illej.unibo.it/article/view/10151wage-settingincentive wagesmiccollective performance agreementswage reduction |
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| title | Wage-setting in France: a Complex Interaction between Law, Case Law and Collective Bargaining |
| title_full | Wage-setting in France: a Complex Interaction between Law, Case Law and Collective Bargaining |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Wage-setting in France: a Complex Interaction between Law, Case Law and Collective Bargaining |
| title_short | Wage-setting in France: a Complex Interaction between Law, Case Law and Collective Bargaining |
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| topic | wage-setting incentive wage smic collective performance agreements wage reduction |
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